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Being a firefighter in your own neighborhood has its rewards, and yet it can be emotionally draining — as it was during the Lower North Fork Fire.
Wendy Zechman, a volunteer firefighter with Elk Creek since 2009, cut her spring-break trip short to help fight the flames.

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Tenney leads Evergreen to third place at Indian Tree course
ARVADA — Evergreen sophomore Madison Tenney fired an 89, six shots off the lead, to tie for third and the Lady Cougars placed third as a team at Indian Tree Golf Course on April 9.
Tenney lit up the back nine, firing a tournament-best 40 over the final nine holes.
Teammate Jennifer Butler also finished in the top 10, placing 10th with a 96.

Evergreen junior Jackson Sayler ran a personal-best time of 4 minutes, 23.55 seconds to capture first place at the South Pasadena Tiger Invitational in Pasadena, Calif., on April 6.
Sayler broke free from the pack on the final lap en route to shattering his previous one-mile mark by 12 seconds. His previous personal best of 4:33 was set earlier this year in Pocatello, Idaho.

LAKEWOOD — One look at the Evergreen boys’ lacrosse team’s 8-0 record and it’s easy to see that they are having a red-hot season. So when they defeated the Chatfield Chargers 12-5 on April 4 at Trailblazer Stadium, the only thing that was shocking was that it was the first time the Cougars had beat the Chargers.

On the back of Katherine Hardy’s racket the word rythm is written. It is her motto to keep every tennis match going. And even though Evergreen’s No. 2 girls singles player lost some of that rhythm in her match with Conifer’s Kirsten Hafemen momentarily on April 5 she found enough of it when it mattered most.

The Evergreen Home Depot heard about Kristen Moeller and David Cottrell’s plight and offered to donate the supplies necessary to sift through the rubble of their home that was burned in the Lower North Fork Fire.

The $800 worth of supplies was a small token of what Home Depot could do, said store manager Steve Powers. In addition, five store employees spent last Saturday helping the couple and their friends do the work.

Firefighters are responding to a four-acre wildfire that broke out just after 1 p.m. on Friday in the 6800 block of Highway 67 on U.S. Forest Service Land. Smoke is visible from the lookout and overlook on Highway 126, according to Channel 9. Winds are from 20 to 40 mph. There are structures in the area but no mandatory evacuations. North Fork and Elk Creek fire departments are involved.

Opening Day, 2012!
Friday marks the 20th opening day for our Colorado Rockies. As has been the case every year since 1993, we start the season tied for first place and as close to a world championship as every other team in the major leagues.